Bio
Ilya Grigorik is the founder of AideRSS – a real-time social media engagement monitoring and analytics platform. He has been wrangling with Ruby and cloud computing for over four years, trying to make sense of it all. In the process, he has contributed to many open source projects, blogged about his discoveries (blog: www.igvita.com, twitter: @igrigorik) has been an active speaker.

About the conference
FutureRuby isn't a Ruby conference, but a conference for Rubyists. This is a call to order - a congress of the curious characters that drew us to this community in the first place. We have a singular opportunity to express a long-term vision, a future where Ruby drives creativity and prosperity without being dampened by partisan politics.

Bio
Ilya Grigorik is the founder of AideRSS – a real-time social media engagement monitoring and analytics platform.
He has been wrangling with Ruby and cloud computing for over four years, trying to make sense of it all. In the process, he has contributed to many open source projects, blogged about his discoveries (blog: www.igvita.com, twitter: @igrigorik) has been an active speaker.

About the conference
FutureRuby isn't a Ruby conference, but a conference for Rubyists. This is a call to order - a congress of the curious characters that drew us to this community in the first place. We have a singular opportunity to express a long-term vision, a future where Ruby drives creativity and prosperity without being dampened by partisan politics.

Summary In this interview taped at FutureRuby, Luke Galea talks about his experience with building sites using Ruby and Merb as well as integrating them using Erlang in the messaging layer.

Bio Luke Galea is the Director of Development for Avid Life Media, a Toronto based company that owns several large dating sites. He is the author of the Hyperactive Resource plugin for Rails and is active in the Ruby and Erlang communities. His latest project is http://www.cougarlife.com [Editor's note: linked website might offend some readers]

About the conference FutureRuby isn't a Ruby conference, but a conference for Rubyists. This is a call to order - a congress of the curious characters that drew us to this community in the first place. We have a singular opportunity to express a long-term vision, a future where Ruby drives creativity and prosperity without being dampened by partisan politics.

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Summary In this talk from FutureRuby, Joseph Wilk gives an introduction to the BDD framework Cucumber and gives valuable tips for getting it adopted and used by customers and developers.

Bio Joseph Wilk is a member of the core development team for Cucumber along with Aslak Hellesøy. He has been developing for the web for 10 years in both big and small companies and as an entrepreneur. After stints working with Java and Python he found Ruby. He now spends his time having more fun than is healthy working as a Software Gardener building web systems and working on open source projects.

About the conference FutureRuby isn't a Ruby conference, but a conference for Rubyists. This is a call to order - a congress of the curious characters that drew us to this community in the first place. We have a singular opportunity to express a long-term vision, a future where Ruby drives creativity and prosperity without being dampened by partisan politics.

Summary Avi Bryant talks about the iterative process that led to Trendly (http://trendly.com/ ), using Javascript, Ruby and Java in the process. He goes on to give his view on the state of Smalltalk and Squeak and talks about his experiments with writing a Smalltalk that compiles to idiomatic Javascript to make use of all the modern Javascript VMs.

Bio Avi Bryant is the co-CEO of Dabble DB, a Vancouver startup focused on web-based data management and collaboration tools. He is the author of the Seaside web application framework, and is active in the open source Squeak Smalltalk community. His latest project is http://trendly.com/

About the conference FutureRuby isn't a Ruby conference, but a conference for Rubyists. This is a call to order - a congress of the curious characters that drew us to this community in the first place. We have a singular opportunity to express a long-term vision, a future where Ruby drives creativity and prosperity without being dampened by partisan politics.

Summary In this talk from FutureRuby, Jonathan Dahl talks about minimalism and clarity in writing and how to use these principles in programming.

Bio Jonathan Dahl is a developer and entrepreneur. His projects include FlixCloud (http://flixcloud.com), a distributed video transcoding service partnered with On2 Technologies; Tumblon (http://tumblon.com), a site that provides parents with interactive developmental information for their children; and a few dozen consulting gig; he blogs at http://railspikes.com.

About the conference FutureRuby isn't a Ruby conference, but a conference for Rubyists. This is a call to order - a congress of the curious characters that drew us to this community in the first place. We have a singular opportunity to express a long-term vision, a future where Ruby drives creativity and prosperity without being dampened by partisan politics.

Summary In this talk from FutureRuby Adam Blum shows Rhodes, an open source Ruby-based framework for building locally executing apps with access to device features for all major smartphone devices.

Bio Adam Blum is CEO of Rhomobile , the open mobile framework company. He is a longtime founder/CTO/VP of Engineering of several successful startups in the web services and mobile spaces (Commerce One, Systinet, Good, Mobio). He is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and advisor to several other software companies.

About the conference FutureRuby isn't a Ruby conference, but a conference for Rubyists. This is a call to order - a congress of the curious characters that drew us to this community in the first place. We have a singular opportunity to express a long-term vision, a future where Ruby drives creativity and prosperity without being dampened by partisan politics.